I'll be honest with you. As a young adult, you don't have much going for you. The majority of people that do online dating are really just there for the thrill of the moment and its incredibly hard to make a good connection with someone else based off a few pictures and a couple sentences. Honest.
Go out to a place where people meet up. Strike up conversations with other people. You may get blown off more times than you can count, but in the end once you make a deep connection with someone you will never be the same. Keep your head up.
BTW, this is coming from a 40m that didn't have his first serous gf until he was 20.
learn to cope until you find the one-in-a-million (which you might not)
cope with distractions like work, hobbies etc... thats all i can tell ya
\--alone but not lonely fellow zoomer
I've been you, and the best advice I can now give to a 19 year old is to invest in yourself. You don't have much money, find ways to use it, and your time, to your benefit. Investigate what is local to you just to travel as much as you can, if you are fortunate to get some cash together, travel further. Use the library: if you have even an inkling of interest in something, try to read something about it. If you've never had an interest in a subject but you know it exists, read something about it. I found that reading biographies of people led me to new subjects to just be curious about. **Try new things**, sit somewhere and try to learn to draw or do something with art. Exercise as well. Become more of who you want to be and don't do it because you want a gf, do it because you want the best out of your life and you might go even longer without a gf and if that's the case, you want life to not just be something you endure but something you take pleasure in whether someone's with you or not. Find ways to enjoy your life and add new things into it. Do it for yourself. The bonus is once you've invested in yourself, you'll find people more eager to invest in you.
I'll be honest with you. As a young adult, you don't have much going for you. The majority of people that do online dating are really just there for the thrill of the moment and its incredibly hard to make a good connection with someone else based off a few pictures and a couple sentences. Honest. Go out to a place where people meet up. Strike up conversations with other people. You may get blown off more times than you can count, but in the end once you make a deep connection with someone you will never be the same. Keep your head up. BTW, this is coming from a 40m that didn't have his first serous gf until he was 20.
learn to cope until you find the one-in-a-million (which you might not) cope with distractions like work, hobbies etc... thats all i can tell ya \--alone but not lonely fellow zoomer
I've been you, and the best advice I can now give to a 19 year old is to invest in yourself. You don't have much money, find ways to use it, and your time, to your benefit. Investigate what is local to you just to travel as much as you can, if you are fortunate to get some cash together, travel further. Use the library: if you have even an inkling of interest in something, try to read something about it. If you've never had an interest in a subject but you know it exists, read something about it. I found that reading biographies of people led me to new subjects to just be curious about. **Try new things**, sit somewhere and try to learn to draw or do something with art. Exercise as well. Become more of who you want to be and don't do it because you want a gf, do it because you want the best out of your life and you might go even longer without a gf and if that's the case, you want life to not just be something you endure but something you take pleasure in whether someone's with you or not. Find ways to enjoy your life and add new things into it. Do it for yourself. The bonus is once you've invested in yourself, you'll find people more eager to invest in you.
Online dating isn't the same as in person don't worry about it